Information Synchronizing System

• US 20090009299A1
• Filed: 02/20/2007
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Original Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Inventors: Tamura, Naoki, Ikeda, Hideo, Sakai, Hidenori, Manabe, Chitaka, Kusaka, Takuya, Iwasa, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US12/087,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20090009299A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.510
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

An information synchronizing system includes a wireless communication terminal including a first information storage device having a first wireless communication range and a second information storage device having a second wireless communication range, the second wireless communication range being larger than the first wireless communication range; a read/write device that reads information from and writes information to the first information storage device; a wireless communication base station capable of performing wireless communication with the wireless communication terminal; and a synchronization controlling device that writes information stored in the first information storage device, the information being read using the read/write device, to the second information storage device via the wireless communication base station and the wireless communication terminal.

Claims

1. An information synchronizing system comprising:

a wireless communication terminal including a first information storage device having a first wireless communication range and a second information storage device having a second wireless communication range, the second wireless communication range being larger than the first wireless communication range;

a read/write device that reads information from and writes information to the first information storage device;

a wireless communication base station capable of performing wireless communication with the wireless communication terminal; and

a synchronization controlling device that writes information stored in the first information storage device, the information being read using the read/write device, to the second information storage device via the wireless communication base station and the wireless communication terminal.

2. The information synchronizing system according to claim 1,

wherein the synchronization controlling device writes information stored in the second information storage device, the information being read via the wireless communication terminal and the wireless communication base station, to the first information storage device using the read/write device.

3. An information synchronizing system comprising:

a wireless communication terminal including a first information storage device having a first wireless communication range and a second information storage device having a second wireless communication range, the second wireless communication range being larger than the first wireless communication range;

a read/write device that reads information from and writes information to the first information storage device;

a wireless communication base station capable of performing wireless communication with the wireless communication terminal; and

a synchronization controlling device that writes information stored in the second information storage device, the information being read via the wireless communication terminal and the wireless communication base station, to the first information storage device using the read/write device.

4. The information synchronizing system according to claim 3,

wherein the synchronization controlling device writes information stored in the first information storage device, the information being read using the read/write device, to the second information storage device via the wireless communication base station and the wireless communication terminal.

5. An information synchronizing system comprising:

a first wireless communication terminal including a first information storage device having a first wireless communication range and a second information storage device having a second wireless communication range, the second wireless communication range being larger than the first wireless communication range;

a read/write device that reads information from and writes information to the first information storage device;

a wireless communication base station capable of performing wireless communication with the wireless communication terminal; and

a synchronization controlling device that synchronizes information stored in the first information storage device and information stored in the second information storage device,

wherein the synchronization controlling device writes the information stored in the first information storage device, the information being read using the read/write device, to the second information storage device via the wireless communication base station and the first wireless communication terminal, and

wherein the synchronization controlling device writes the information stored in the second information storage device, the information being read via the first wireless communication terminal and the wireless communication base station, to the first information storage device using the read/write device.

6. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein, the synchronization controlling device reads the information stored in the first information storage device using the read/write device upon the read/write device entering the first wireless communication range.

7. The information synchronizing system according to claim 6,

wherein, after the synchronization controlling device reads the information stored in the first information storage device using the read/write device, the synchronization controlling device writes the information that has been read to the second information storage device via the wireless communication base station and the first wireless communication terminal.

8. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the synchronization controlling device reads in advance the information stored in the second information storage device via the wireless communication base station and the first wireless communication terminal, and

wherein the synchronization controlling device writes the information that has been read to the first information storage device using the read/write device upon the read/write device entering the first wireless communication range.

9. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a second wireless communication terminal,

wherein the first wireless communication terminal and the second wireless communication terminal exist in a communication range of the wireless base station, and

wherein the wireless base station performs communication only with the first wireless communication terminal.

11. The information synchronizing system according to claim 9,

wherein communication with the wireless communication base station becomes possible earlier for the first wireless communication terminal than for the second wireless communication terminal.

12. The information synchronizing system according to claim 9,

wherein the first wireless communication terminal has first unique information matching unique information of the first information storage device,

wherein the second wireless communication terminal has second unique information different from the first unique information, and

wherein the wireless communication base station reads the first unique information of the first wireless communication terminal and the second unique information of the second wireless communication terminal.

13. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a second wireless communication terminal,

wherein a communication range of the wireless communication base station is set to be a range where wireless communication is allowed only with the first wireless communication terminal.

14. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the wireless communication base station performs communication with the first wireless communication terminal via a wireless antenna having such a communication distance that only one carrier is possible to enter within the communication distance.

15. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the first wireless communication terminal is provided on a movable carrier.

16. The information synchronizing system according to claim 15,

wherein the read/write device, the wireless communication base station, and the synchronization controlling device are provided in a synchronizing device that moves relative to the carrier.

17. The information synchronizing system according to claim 15,

wherein the wireless communication base station and the synchronization controlling device are provided in a synchronizing device that moves relative to the carrier, and

wherein the read/write device is provided on a portable device that can be carried separately from the synchronizing device.

18. The information synchronizing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

a read/write-device moving device that moves the read/write device with the synchronizing device for a predetermined distance together with the carrier.

19. The information synchronizing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

a read/write-device moving device that moves the read/write device for a predetermined distance together with the carrier.

20. The information synchronizing device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a device that determines, in a case where the information in the first information storage device and the information in the second information storage device are to be synchronized, whether synchronization is to be achieved by using the information in the first information storage device or by using the information in the second information storage device according to a position where the synchronizing device is provided.

21. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a device that, on the basis of time of communication regarding information to be synchronized maintained in the first information storage device and the first wireless communication terminal, which information is to be used for synchronization.

22. The information synchronizing system according to claim 20,

wherein the device causes synchronization to be performed on the basis of information with latest communication time.

23. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the synchronizing device is connected to an information management device, and

wherein the synchronizing device transfers at least part of the information stored in the first information storage device to the information management device so that the transferred information is maintained therein.

24. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the synchronizing device is connected to an information management device, and

wherein the synchronizing device transfers at least part of the information stored in the second information storage device to the information management device so that the transferred information is maintained therein.

25. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the synchronizing device is connected to an information management device, and

wherein the synchronizing device transfers at least part of the information stored in the first information storage device and at least part of the information stored in the second information storage device to the information management device so that the transferred information is maintained therein.

26. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the synchronizing device is connected to an information management device, and it is possible to arbitrarily select information to be synchronized and information to be transferred to and maintained in a database of the information management device among the information stored in the first information storage device.

27. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the synchronizing device is connected to an information management device, and it is possible to arbitrarily select information to be synchronized and information to be transferred to and maintained in a database of the information management device among the information stored in the second information storage device.

28. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5,

wherein the synchronizing device is connected to an information management device, and it is possible to arbitrarily select information to be synchronized and information to be transferred to and maintained in a database of the information management device among the information stored in the first information storage device and the information stored in the second information storage device.

29. The information synchronizing system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a device that writes information stored in a database of a management device connected to the synchronizing device to at least one of the first information storage device and the second information storage device.

10. (canceled)